1208 Perovskite, Oka, Quebec, Canada
Two small crystals without matrix. One a cube (2.5mm) and the other an octahedron (4.5mm). Ex Mark Hallam Collection.
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4595 Gold, Bear Mountain Gold Mine, Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada
A gold crystal that is almost a sphere. The flat crystal faces are pretty small. Ex Ray Hill. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 20 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat OW402 Molybdenite, Moly Hill Mine, La Motte, Quebec, Canada
A single hexagonal molybdenite crystal on quartz. Specimen measures 42x22x15mm.
ncat JP1460 Gmelinite-Na, Siderite, Calcite, Pyrite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Dark grey hexagonal gmelinite crystal with pyrite inclusions, pale tan siderite, red fluorescing calcite, and pyrite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat WD312 Gmelinite, Stilbite, Pinnacle Island, Five Islands, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pink-orange gmelinite after chabazite, with tiny white stilbite clusters. There are hollows on the back from where an unknown mineral had been. Specimen measures 25x25x15mm.
ncat ANK MSH57 Sabinaite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Pale yellowish thin tabular pseudo-hexagonal crystals. Ex Ann and Noel Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat VHD15 Thomasclarkite-(Y), Molybdenite, Elpidite, Siderite, Aegirine, Sodalite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Greyish-green prismatic spray of crystals of elpidite (green fluorescence), pale yellow tabular thomasclarkite, silver hexagonal molybdenite, tiny brown siderite, green prismatic aegirine, and sodalite (orange fluorescence), in white albite (pink fluorescence). A yellow arrow points...
ncat MAR01 M826 Brewsterite-Sr, Calcite, Yellow Lake, Olalla, Osoyoos Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Ex Bernie Day Collection. Brewsterite fluoresces light blue under longwave UV. Calcite fluoresces red under mediumwave UV. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3077 Anatase, Poudrette quarry , Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Ex Jack Nelson Collection. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of 4.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0334 Vesuvianite, Diopside, Jeffrey Mine (Jeffrey Quarry; Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
A small specimen of manganoan vesuvianite crystals with transparent diopsides. The perfectly terminated vesuvianites have varying colour from intense purple to very pleasing apple yellow-green and some gemmy areas. With exemplary lustre and good light...
3539 Ancylite-(Ce), Albite, Aegirine, Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless to greyish, and pinky-orange crystals of ancylite-(Ce), or possibly calcioancylite in small cavities in albite. In the second photo, white (probable) calcioburbankite (Type Locality). You can see the hexagonal cross section if you look...
ncat MBBD M1821-2 Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Dark red spheres of rhodochrosite on white albite. Colourless crystals in the foreground and on the left may be pectolite. Minor green aegirine also present. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on...
4392 Svanbergite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Mount Brussilof mine (Bay Mag Mine), Radium Hot Springs, Golden Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Orange pseudocubic svanbergite with a pyritohedron pyrite crystal (altering to goethite) on white dolomite. Ex Ray Hill 7/2007. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JT1 Bastnäsite-(Ce), Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Grey hexagonal crystals of bastnäsite. Ex H. William “Bill” Meinert. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 88 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat SD Kulanite, Fluorapatite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Very dark platy crystals of kulanite that are green with transmitted light, with white to colourless fluorapatite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
ncat JL0571 Lazulite, Whiteite, Quartz, Rapid Creek, Dawson mining district, Yukon, Canada
Dark blue lazulite crystals with tan whiteite and colourless quartz. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
ncat ANK MSH128 Sphalerite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
A sharp metallic black tetrahedral sphalerite crystal on white albite. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 109 images. Click on the image below for a...
ncat ANK MSH126 Rhodochrosite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Deep sharp red-brown rhombohedral crystals, one perched on aegirine crystal. There are also colourless reticulated crystals below right of centre. Maybe albite? One small area on top of rhodochrosite (not in photo) fluoresces orange. Ex...
ncat ANK MSH87 Franconite, Actinolite, Zircon, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Franconite (white spheres), actinolite (green sprays) and brown crystals of zircon(?) that fluoresce orange. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 59 images. Click on the...
ncat ANK MSH93 Lorenzenite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Pinkish acicular crystals of lorenzenite. There are a couple of unknowns too, the pale greenish prismatic crystal and the brown material upper left (it fluoresces orange). Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre...
ncat ANK MSH147 Calcioburbankite, Petersenite-(Ce), Siderite, Hilairite(?), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
As with many MSH specimens, you don’t always know what you’ve got! White to tan calcioburbankite on hexagonal prismatic petersenite-(Ce). Many of the brown crystals, the lighter ones, are siderite, but some, the darker brown...
ncat ANK MSH65 Dawsonite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless striated prisms. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Pete Richards. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 68 images. Blue sodalite (part of matrix) fluoresces a strong orange. Click on the image below for...
ncat ANK MSH44 Eudialyte, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Rootbeer brown crystal. It is labelled as eudialyte but it is not known if it has been analysed. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich, collected May 2007. Width of view 5.75mm....
ncat ANK MSH137 Neighborite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small cluster of brown cubes. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH71 Pectolite, Phlogopite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Phlogopite pseudohexagonal plates on prismatic colourless pectolite. Pectolite crystals have zoned fluorescence, pink with blue caps. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 60 images. Comparison image...
ncat ANK MSH81 Burbankite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Yellow “reverse sceptre” burbankite. Second photo ilmenite and burbankite. Calcite also present on specimen. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 18 images (burbankite). Stack of...
ncat ANK MSH123 Epididymite, Franconite, Analcime, Muscovite, Pyrite, Albite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Colourless twinned epididymite with cream hemispheres of franconite(?), with tiny silver pseudohexagonal muscovite, and tiny pyrite crystals, minor albite, all on analcime. There is also a prismatic hexagonal crystal of epididymite pointing down to the...
ncat ANK MSH110 Elpidite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Elpidite greenish and bright fluorescent green under longwave UV, gaidonnayite (not in photo) clear. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 57 images (white light) and...
ncat ANK MSH107 Serandite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Prismatic pale pink crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 134 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH103 Vinogradovite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Thin tan blades. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat ANK MSH100 Monteregianite-(Y), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Sprays of thin grey prismatic crystals. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 95 images. Most of the matrix fluoresces orange, probably nepheline. Click on the...
ncat ANK MSH100 Hilairite, Gaidonnayite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Type Locality for hilairite. Brown hilairite with colourless/grey twinned gaidonnayite. Hilairite fluoresce green under longwave UV, but gaidonnayite doesn’t appear to respond. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean Pierre Beckerich. Width of view...
ncat ANK MSH1 Ferrokentbrooksite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Small orange crystals. Originally labelled as kentbrooksite, but probably ferrokentbrooksite and most likely collected before that mineral was described as a new species. Ex Noel and Ann Kennon Collection. Ex Jean P Beckerich. Width of...
8054 Carletonite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
A single crystal without matrix showing perfect cleavage. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5517 Grossular, Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources (previously Asbestos), Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
A group of pale but lustrous grossular garnets with interesting surface features. Ex John Sobolewski. Ex Matt Gibbs. Width of specimen 12mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution...
7079 JL0772 Weloganite, Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Type Locality. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1985 from a collector in Edmonton, Canada. Width of specimen 9mm. Stack of 112 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
30132 Silver, Langis Mine, Casey Township, Cobalt Area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Silver in matrix slice, 67x45x7mm. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
4572 Serandite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Pale orange serandite crystals. Ex Bob Rothenberg. Ex Giles Haineault. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 39 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2891 Rontgenite-(Ce), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
An artful ex-Bob Rothenberg mount (also ex Robin Tibbit). The little disc on which he’s mounted the crystals has a diameter of 6 mm. The disc sits atop a cork pedestal affixed to the black...
ncat WD109 Sabinaite, Dawsonite, Sodalite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
A really difficult one to photograph. Transparent colourless sabinaite crystal (centre of photo) with white dawsonite and blue sodalite. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
7411 JL1902 Synchysite-(Ce), Pyrite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Yellowish pseudohexagonal plates of synchysite-(Ce) with tiny pyrite crystals sprinkled on them. White albite crystals at the base. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite-(Y)). Width of view 3.5mm....
7434 JL1919 Smoky Quartz, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite).
7396 JL1899 Anatase, Albite, Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat (peatite). Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images.
7375 JL1926 Nepheline, Albite, Unknown Pink, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Cynthia Peat.
7305 JL3576 Normandite, Poudrette Quarry, Mont St Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Acquired by Joan Lamond from Kevin Davy at the Waverley Show in 1995 for $10.00.
5728 Strontiodresserite, Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Type Locality. White crystal sprays.
1447 Fluorite, Natrolite, Rhodochrosite, Aegirine?, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM, Montérégie, Québec, Canada
Wedge-shaped reddish-brown rhodochrosite on and with natrolite, colourless tiny cubes of fluorite with small octahedral corners on thin acicular aegirine(?) (see first crop). Unidentified white platy crystals (see second crop). Width of view 7.5mm. Stack...
9127 JP2632 Pectolite, Grossular, Jeffrey Mine (“Johns-Manville Mine”), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Lemon pectolite crystals with green grossular garnets. Height 4.33. Stack of 45 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
30089 Fluorapatite, Calcite, Liscombe Deposit, Monmouth Township, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada
Fluorapatite crystal is repaired in three places. It is not fluorescent, but the glue used is. The calcite matrix fluoresces pink. Video best viewed full screen.
30088 Pyrite, Marcasite, Calcite, Nanisivik Mine, Nanisivik, Baffin Island, Canada
Pyrite after marcasite, with calcite and a second generation of pyrite. The calcite is fluorescent pink under longwave UV. Video best viewed full screen.
30081 Chabazite-Ca, Heulandite-Ca, Wasson Bluff, Parrsboro, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pink-orange chabazite and colourless pearlescent heulandite. Includes old label. Video best viewed full screen.
30068 Barite, Dolomite, Pyrite, Calcite, Newfoundland Zinc Mine, Daniel’s Harbor, Newfoundland, Canada
Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
20049 Vesuvianite, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec, Canada
Bi-coloured pink and green. Ex Barry Johnson Collection. Video best viewed full screen.
ncat VHD10, Pyromorphite, Society Girl Mine, Moyie, British Columbia, Canada
Ex Keith Williams, Williams Minerals.
20041 Catapleite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Colourless pseudo hexagonal platy crystals. Other species present including tiny pyrite crystals on edges of catapleite crystals.
20040 Sodalite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada
Blue sodalite with intense orange fluorescence under Convoy UV torch.
20032 Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Single black crystal with greenish patches.
ncat JP1017 Vesuvianite, Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
Labelled Mont Saint Hilaire. Purple Mn-vesuvianite. Green is highly fluorescent.
ncat JP1147 Graphite, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
La Conception, Montreal, Canada
4781 Wicksite, Big Fish River, Dawson Mining District, Yukon, Canada
Type Locality, Peter Hall
5573 Haineaultite, Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carriere Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Type Locality. Pale yellow crystals and crust., Peter Hall
30012 Natrolite, Aegirine, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Comes from a single find made about 20 years ago (~1995). This is a lovely group of 5mm natrolite prisms perched on slender black aegirine crystals. Very aesthetic from any side, and an excellent example...
8095 Cordylite-(Ce), Ancylite-(Ce), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8100 Pyrrhotite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8187 Actinolite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8188 Clinochlore, Calcite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8066 Calcite, Fluorite, Marcasite, Barite, Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8071 M3956 Neptunite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8072 Albite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Baveno Twins. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8081 Unidentified Species, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Pale pink striated crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8082 Unidentified Species, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Pale pink and red crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8065 Riebeckite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8029 Birnessite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8042 Eudialyte, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8043 Grossular, Jeffrey Mine (Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8057 Chromian Grossular, Allanite-(Ce), Jeffrey Mine (Johns-Manville Mine), Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8059 Leifite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8060 Weloganite, Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8009 Eudyalite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8015 White and Pale Pink Crystals, Pyrite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8017 Villiaumite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. ex C. Peat 1997
7146 Ancylite Group, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Margaret Day. It could be ancylite-(Ce) or calcioancylite-(Ce).
7147 Polylithionite, Serandite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
7150 Manganoneptunite, Serandite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
8001 Villiaumite, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8062 Zircon, Pyrite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8064 Rhodochrosite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8099 Labuntsovite-Mn, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
30026 Peatite-(Y)/Ramikite-(Y), Calcite after unknown, Synchysite-(Ce) after Remondite-(Ce), Siderite, Albite, Anatase, Analcime, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Type Locality for Peatite and Ramikite. A number of sharp peatite-ramikite crystals are present on this specimen. The matrix id composed of some blocky pseudomorphs of calcite after ?, synchysite after rémondite along with lots...
8007 Aegirine, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8008 Rhodochrosite, Elpidite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8011 Nordstrandite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection. Collected early 1970s. ex C Peat 1995
8016 Zircon, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8020 Brookite, Lorenzenite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8030 Ancylite-(Ce), Molybdenite, Unidentified Species, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Unknown Pink. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8052 Elpidite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8055 Natrolite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Fluoresces green. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8004 Anatase, Dolomite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8006 Elpidite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
7158 Leifite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Cynthia Peat
8002 Donnayite-(Y), Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8003 Bastnasite-(Ce), Fluorite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
10002 Diopside, North Burgess, Drummond Township, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada
Single crystal 42x25x15mm. Ex Carl R. Bently collection (#1069), ex Oren Root (1803-1885) collection (#1647).
7148 Labradorite (Anorthite), Nain Complex, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Museum Victoria
7123 Wine stone, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
ex Joan Lamond Collection
6049 Vinogradovite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Small colourless prismatic crystals
6044 Augelite, Rapid Creek, Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada
Pale green crystals. Ex Al Ordway Collection, ex Bill Muller
6040 Diopside, Prehnite, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
Good prismatic crystals of colourless prehnite with green diopside. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
6032 Laurentianite, Pyrite, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
Tiny white and clear slim elongated prisms with red-brown coating on pyrite. Only a small quantity of this material was collected by one collector and very little of it was saved.
6028 Pyrolusite, Teny Cape, Nova Scotia, Canada
Ex Michigan Tech collection specimen 4191 with label (an older label referring to the institution by its older name, Michigan College of Mines, used up to 1925). Also has a Seaman Museum label on the...
6007 Titanowodginite, Muscovite, Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Type locality. Black-brown crystals in mica matrix
5048 Pollucite, Analcime, Tanco Mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
1478 Birnessite, Serandite, Leucophanite, Poudrette quarry (Demix quarry; Uni-Mix quarry; Desourdy quarry; Carriere Mont Saint-Hilaire), Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallee-du-Richelieu RCM, Monteregie, Quebec, Canada
Brown-black birnessite pseudomorph after a prismatic 20mm serandite crystal with no matrix attached. The serandite crystallized first, the birnessite replaced the serandite atom-by-atom maintaining the crystal form, but changing the composition. Green crystals are leucophanite....
0794 Xanthoconite, Proustite, Dyscrasite, O’Brien Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Vintage micro. This specimen was part of the collection of micromount Hall of Famer (ind. 1997) Bill Henderson. According to Henderson’s label, Neal Yedlin, the most renowned of all micromounters, originally placed it into circulation,...